"The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them."

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Source : Roger Tory Peterson (2007). “All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures”, p.271, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Roger Tory Peterson

#Voice Quotes #Rights Quotes #World Quotes

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
“Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.”

Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin
“I think writers are very anxious.”
“Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ***** to market; or the precipice.”
“The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.”
“Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'”
“Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.”

Source : "Wickedly Savage Passions". Interview with Melissa Mia Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. February 23, 2004.
“For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.”

Source : Stanley Hauerwas, John Berkman, Michael Cartwright (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.499, Duke University Press

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